At the April 2003 BIGS meeting, John Blest gave a presentation on 'hitting the brick wall' and the advisability of pursuing collateral family members in order to uncover clues. In addition, he provided the following list of websites that will be of interest to BIGS members;
http://www.otherdays.com/ Provides townland maps on-line,
maps cannot be printed and do not contain the
reference numbers to Griffith's Valuation.
http://www.irishorigins.com/
http://www.eneclann.ie/MssLink.htm#ireland
http://www.may.ie/library/ This is the Maynooth College Library.
Can access family records of some priests and nuns.
http://www.rootsweb.com/irish/
http://www/irlgov.ie/landreg/ Land registration information
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ National Genealogical Society of
Ireland. John advises clicking on the 'links' indicator at the top right of the home page. The links are quite useful.
http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/frame_800.htm This is the site John mentioned at our last meeting. It contains an index to records in Irish Heritage